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(Page 2) <br />MINE ID # OR INSPECTION DATE: INSPECTOR'S <br />PROSPECTING ID #: INITIALS: <br />OBSERVATIONS <br />This inspection was conducted as part of the normal monitoring and enforcement inspection process that the <br />Division Reclamation Mining & Safety (Division) carries out on all permitted mines in Colorado at least once <br />every four years. Chris Rowe from the Division carried out the inspection. There was not a Kit Carson County <br />representative present. The mine is located 7 miles southwest of Flagler. This is a 9.7 acre mine site. The last <br />inspection of this site was on 4/17/2003, and no problems were cited. <br />This site appears to have some pre-permit mining activity, with some mining having occurred along the western <br />side of the permit boundary. <br />The site is accessed off a 0.2 mile long un-improved dirt track. <br />The active portion of the mine site is a trench with a slope along the long sides of approximately 4:1 slopes. <br />There is some disturbance east of the trench as well. The trench is approximately 20 feet deep, and cover <br />approximately 2 acres . There has been some recent erosion along the trench slopes and there was standing <br />water in the bottom of the trench. Some erosion of the eastern part of the mine permit ran toward a dry gully. <br />The gully is off the permit boundary and appears to have recently experienced some significant down-cutting. It <br />is not clear whether any of the down-cutting was a result of mining activity. A dense patch of grass appears to <br />have stopped sediment from running off the mine site and into the gully. Sediment erosion controls may be <br />needed above the gully if any further erosion is generated in off this portion of the mine. There appears to be <br />adequate topsoil for reclamation of the site. <br />No problems were noted. <br />Enforcement and Inspection Contact Address <br />OPERATOR: Kit Carson County <br />STREET: P.O. bax 160 <br />CITY/STATE/ZIP: Burlington, Colorado 80807 <br />cc: <br />U.S. Army Corps of Engineers CO Hazardous Materials and Waste Division <br />U.S. Bureau of Land Management CO State Engineers Office <br />U.S. Forest Service CO Water Quality Control Division <br />CO Department of Transportation OTHER: <br />